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    Heater blasting on one side, vent air on the other

    Unfortunately we've gotten nothing BUT heat, never had a Winter, so received almost no snow. The reservoirs are drying up and we're looking at one of the worst droughts ever. Denver has already gone on water restrictions so it's pretty bleak unless we start getting some serious rain. Finally...
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    Heater blasting on one side, vent air on the other

    Wouldn't you know it... I went to pick up some lumber today and it was a full 40 degrees cooler than Wednesday, so the truck was giving me heat anyway. Ugh 49 today, back up to 81 again tomorrow, and back down to 49 again next Tuesday. Well I see Monday at least will be warm enough to see what...
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    Heater blasting on one side, vent air on the other

    Huh and from what I read in previous threads, I fully expected to hear them "slamming" back and forth to learn their new positions. Well I might be running to grab some lumber after work today, that should warm up the truck enough to see what's blowing out.
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    Heater blasting on one side, vent air on the other

    Well it took me forever to get back to this, but these hot temps have really been getting to me on the drive home. I picked up a cheap set of dremel burrs from Amazon awhile back, and that actually made quick work of cutting a large enough slot in the bracket to access the screw head. What...
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    Why does my radio fail at night?

    I'll do ya one better... it's rather annoying when the guy sitting next to me at the stoplight is blasting the station that I am desperately trying to hear over the static. I'd say for the number of times that's happened, it's a pretty clear indication that it's my radio and not the station or...
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    Why does my radio fail at night?

    I've been having this issue since I got the truck in 2009, but this week I finally realized something... I've always noticed that the radio has *terrible* reception in the Winter months but seems to do fine when it's warm. I live and work about 30-40 miles from Denver, the local radio stations...
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    Heater blasting on one side, vent air on the other

    Damn that's a great pic, but seems to indicate that you can't just permanently bend the bracket out of the way since the glove box needs to mount to it again. And I guess getting an angle grinder into that position is also out of the question. Ah well at least now I can better plan for what...
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    Heater blasting on one side, vent air on the other

    Reading through the second link of yours, it looks like I was already there 9 years ago! Sheesh I don't even remember doing that but it must have been one of the easy ones I replaced at that point. Now this one on the passenger side seems like a real bear. So I saw Roadie's pics with the...
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    Heater blasting on one side, vent air on the other

    I haven't actually played with the controls yet to make sure it's still switching between the vent modes. It's blowing from the central dash because that's where it's supposed to be for the current conditions -- my side is correctly blowing cooler outside air. I always assumed there was a...
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    Heater blasting on one side, vent air on the other

    Ugh bad news... Went out shopping today and it's still pumping hot air out the passenger side. And here I thought I was finally catching up on problems. Guess I'll be looking over those links later to see just how bad this is going to be. In my case, you can feel the stark contrast from the...
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    Heater blasting on one side, vent air on the other

    Thanks for that! Just pulled the fuse to reset the system, everything came back up reset to 72 degrees so it looks promising. I won't be driving anywhere else until Saturday though so I won't know if this was successful until I get the engine warmed up again. And oh god, I really hope it...
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    Heater blasting on one side, vent air on the other

    2004 Trailblazer SWB, I had the battery disconnected on Sunday to repair my horn, and it's taken me a couple days to realize I'm now having a problem with my climate control. Basically I'm getting cool air vent on the driver's side as expected, but the passenger side is blowing really hot air...
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    Clarifications with removing airbag

    Huzzah! I have a horn again. And that took way longer than needed. :hopeless: So I wish someone had mentioned... the horn contacts have an up and down direction! And naturally, I put them in the wrong way, so when I snapped the airbag back in place it was offset up about 1/2" and the holes...
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    Clarifications with removing airbag

    Pulled the airbag today and didn't immediately see any problem until I started poking around. The red wire practically fell out, and one pin of the spring-loaded clip is broken off. Yep, that'll do it! I just ordered a new contact module and I'll also clean up the contacts while I have...
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    Clarifications with removing airbag

    As a matter of fact I do have steering wheel controls + DIC, and all of that is working fine (although I think three out of four of the backlights have died), so it sounds like the ground wire issue shouldn't be a concern here, along with the possibility of the whole cable being sheared. I'm...

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